Mashal Saad al-Bostani of the Saudi Royal Air Forces, who was named by pro-government Turkish media as one in every of 15 suspects within the alleged homicide of Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi, has reportedly died in a automotive accident on return to the dominion.

An article titled “Riyadh Silenced Somebody” on Yeni Safak, a Turkish newspaper that strongly helps Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, cited nameless sources as saying Bostani died in a automotive crash, with out giving a selected time or location.

Surveillance footage revealed by Turkish newspaper Hurriyet purports to indicate Jamal Khashoggi coming into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2. CCTV/Hurriyet by way of AP

Yeni Safak has confirmed a significant voice in protection of Khashoggi’s disappearance, with each day scoops from unnamed Turkish officers giving gory particulars to what they allege was a homicide throughout the Saudi consulate on October 2.

Saudi Arabia flatly denies any data of Khashoggi’s whereabouts or disappearance, however US intelligence officers have began to echo the view that the outstanding Saudi critic, who lately took residence within the US, was murdered.

Particularly, Yeni Safak has reported having a audio tape of Khashoggi’s homicide, however Turkish intelligence has not turned over the tape to the US. The US and Turkey are NATO allies with in depth intelligence-sharing agreements.

“We’ve got requested for it, if it exists,” Trump stated of the tape on Wednesday. “I am unsure but that it exists, in all probability does, presumably does.”

“Let’s be trustworthy,” Democrat Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut instructed Enterprise Insider on Wednesday, “the Turks have leaked some fairly severe allegations via the press that they haven’t been prepared to make public. There should not lots of clear arms.”

“We should always acknowledge that almost all of what we all know is thru leaks from the Turkish authorities,” he continued. “Sooner or later the Turks have to provide us precisely what they’ve as an alternative of leaking all of this to the press.”

The Each day Beast on Tuesday cited “sources aware of the model of occasions circulating all through diplomatic circles in Washington” as saying Saudi Arabia would attempt to pin the homicide of Khashoggi on “a Saudi two-star normal new to intelligence work.”

This holds with President Donald Trump‘s suggestion that “rogue killers” took out Khashoggi, and never the Saudi monarchy itself.

CNN and The New York Occasions on Monday additionally reported that Saudi Arabia was making ready an alibi that will acknowledge Khashoggi was killed.